Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    

plain editing?
  

    
I need that, vard. Where getum?
  

    
Note: AFAIK, BBEdit is a Mac-only program. There's a free version called
BBEdit Lite that can be had at various locations on the web.

Plain text = ascii only, like in pico.
  

    
BBEdit is great for web pages.  The retail version (not the freeware) allows 
you to open a document via FTP, and save it the same way.
  

    
BBEdit Lite, the freeware text editor for Mac, can be downloaded at
Bare Bones Software <http://www.barebones.com/>.
  

    

thank you sir.
  

    


Since this interview, i have become enamored of www.google.com for my
first search in any quest.  it prioritizes pages which lots of other pages
link to... which weights things in a usually useful way... and it has a
cache of the page as it appeared at indexing as well as the link to that URL
now, so that if you are looking for "flower arrange thistle" and you find
a craft-of-the-day-page but it now features model painting, you can see the
thistle page from another day which the search spider found, still in 
that cache link.  I have heard of sites which restoed accidentally deleted
pages from that cache feature on google!  So Reva, how do you rate it?
  

    
I use google, too.  Excellent!
  

    

I started using google after the review of it on Salon by <scottros>. I
was particularly attracted by his description of its peer-review-type
ranking algorithm. Then just for a lark I went to google and typed in
"chocolate chip cookies" and MY OWN PAGE came up first!! I was so excited!
  

    
Nice!  But is strang me together on the same line with <sarfatti>...
  

    
I find myself going to google a lot these days. I think partly because it's
so much fun to type, and partly because the site isn't all crapped up with
ads and portal-type distractions.
  

    
I spent some time yesterday doing some searches on google and found it to
have a much higher percentage of useful hits than any other search engine
I've used.
  

    
Taking your recommendation, I just went to google after a frustrating
and fruitless search on Alta Vista, usually my search engine of choice.

What I liked was that, in addition to the highlighted link, google
also displayed the text I was looking for highlighted and in context so
I could actually find it when I went to the link.

I may have a new favorite, now that Alta Vista seems to be more
interested in being a portal than in being a useful search engine.
  

    
That's the trend, unfortunately.
  

    

Google has a fun search puzzle up now.  

A good little online treasure hunt.
  

    

I posted a pointer to this topic, and realized that this one should have a
pointer to the continuation for the second edition.

http://engaged.well.com/engaged/engaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&t=77